Child health · UKMLA & AKT
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.
Key high-yield points
- Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) is persistent/recurrent Candida infection of skin, nails, and mucosae due to a defective Th17/IL-17 axis - a sentinel for underlying immunological or endocrine disease, not simply 'difficult thrush'.
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